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Ayesha by H. Rider Haggard
Category: Classics
"An imaginative, entertaining adventure story."-E.F. Bleiler "Enchantment is just what this writer exercised; he fixed pictures in our minds that thirty years have been unable to wear away."-Graham Green There are few equals to the thrilling adventure-fantasy novels of H. Rider Haggard, and of all of ...Show more
Finished - (H Rider Haggard Classics Collection) by H. Rider Haggard
Category: Classics | Series: Allan Quatermain Ser.
You, my friend, into whose hand, if you live, I hope these scribblings of mine will pass one day, must well remember the 12th of April of the year 1877 at Pretoria. Sir Theophilus Shepstone, or Sompseu, for I prefer to call him by his native name, having investigated the affairs of the Transvaal for a c ...Show more
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, H. Rider Haggard
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone who ventures near the spectacular diamond mines of King Solomon...
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Category: Classics
Allan Quartermain had been a trader and hunter all his life and knew Africa as well as any white man. He was returning to Natal, South Africa, when Sir Henry Curtis tracked him down and made him a proposition. Curtis's brother had heard of the famous, fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. He has taken a ...Show more
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics
Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone who ventures near the spectacular diamond mines of King Solomon.
King Solomons Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Category: Classics
This faithful but unpretending record of a remarkable adventure is hereby respectfully dedicated by the narrator to all the big boys and little boys who read it. I offer apologies for my blunt way of writing. I can but say in excuse of it that I am more accustomed to handling a rifle than a pen. This is ...Show more
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Category: Children's Classics
When first published, King Solomon's Mines (1885) was an enormous popular success. The narrative follows the explorations of Allan Quatermain, a fortune hunter who travels to Africa in search of ancient treasures and a lost fellow explorer. Written as an adventure story, the novel is also a late-Victori ...Show more
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.' An amazin ...Show more
King Solomon's Mines & Allan Quatermain by H. RIDER HAGGARD
Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
In King Solomon's Mines, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good persuade Allan Quatermain to help them find Sir Henry's brother George, who has gone missing in the unexplored African interior while searching for the legendary treasure trove of a lost kingdom. Quatermain agrees to lead the expedition, though ...Show more
King Solomon's Mines (HB) by H. Rider Haggard
Category: Classics | Series: Award Essential Classics
Maiwa's Revenge by H. Rider Haggard
Category: Non-Fiction
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, a ...Show more
She by H. Rider Haggard
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction
This title comes with an introduction by Margaret Atwood. A note from The Editor: I feel it incumbent upon me to explain how this wonderful and mysterious history found its way into my hands. I received a letter and two parcels- one a manuscript, the other containing a scarab and an ancient sherd - from ...Show more